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Medical office, imaging center relocates The Adirondack Community Physicians New Hartford medical office has relocated from its location on Middle Settlement Road to the Crossroads Plaza at 8411 Seneca Turnpike in New Hartford. The plaza is located at the intersection of Seneca Turnpike and Middle Settlement Road. The providers who practice at the office include Drs. Christopher Clark, Marissa Kalil, William Krause, and Irena Kokot, and family nurse practitioners Kathleen Sanger, Marilyn Campola, and Tina Cuda. The office phone number will stay the same at 315-624-8500. The imaging center, formerly at the Faxton Campus, is moving to the MorganStanley/SmithBarney Building at 106 Business Park Drive in the Utica Business Park. Women’s services that are moving include digital mammography, bone densitometry, and stereotactic and ultrasound breast biopsy. Ultrasound will be offered at both locations. Imaging services will resume at the new location April 3. The office phone numbers will stay the same. To schedule an appointment, call 315-624-5374.
St. E’s trauma coordinator receives award Filomain Talerico, trauma and emergency preparedness coordinator at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica, has been awarded the New York State Trauma Coordinator of Distinction Award by the New York State Division of the American Trauma Society in Troy. Each year, the American Trauma Society Talerico presents awards to a coordinator, registrar and physician of distinction. The first award was presented in 1997. These awards were developed to recognize trauma care excellence among the membership. The recipient is selected based on his or her significant contribution to trauma care over the past year. Talerico received her master’s degree in health services management from the New School For Social Research and a bachelor’s of science degree in nursing from SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica Rome. She is a graduate of the St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing. In her role as trauma coordinator, Talerico is responsible for coordination of care for the critically injured trauma patients in the community, in addition to the various injury prevention programs developed at St. Elizabeth Medical Center and now utilized statewide.
She and her husband, Joseph, reside in Utica.
St. E’s Medical Group New Hartford office moves The St. Elizabeth Medical Group New Hartford office at 86 Genesee Sr. relocated recently. Its new office is located at the St. Elizabeth Medical Arts building at 4401 Middle Settlement Road, Suite 201, New Hartford. Patients should use entrance A and go to the second floor. There is elevator access to the office. Medical group providers at this location are Dr. Mark Warfel, and family nurse practitioners Sandy Gaetano, Sally O’Callaghan and Danielle Swiderski. The office phone numbers will remain the same: 315 738-1835 and 315 797-2398.
From left, Kelly Scheinman, director of renal services at Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare in Utica, joins Dr. Charles Eldredge, medical director of renal dialysis at FSLH, and Howard Sears.
Excellus BCBS awards hospitals for quality
Faxton St. Luke’s expands its Rome Dialysis Center
Fifty-three Upstate New York hospitals last year earned more than $21 million in quality improvement incentive payments from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield as part of the health insurer’s hospital performance incentive program. In the past three years, quality performance incentives from Excellus BCBS have exceeded $61 million. “Collaborating with our hospital partners to link payments to improvements in health outcomes and patient safety has resulted in our members getting the best quality of care and the most value for their health care premiums,” said Carrie Frank, vice president of quality and health informatics at Excellus BCBS. Eleven hospitals in the Utica/ Rome/North Country Region participated in this program in 2011, including Adirondack Medical Center, a member of Adirondack Health, Alice Hyde Medical Center, Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital, Bassett Medical Center, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center, Community Memorial Hospital, Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare (two campuses), Oneida Healthcare Center, Rome Memorial Hospital and St. Elizabeth Medical Center. Launched in 2004, the HPIP program evaluates participating hospitals on over 300 performance measures.
Excellus CEO to retire at end of 2012 David Klein, chief executive officer of Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and its parent corporation for the past nine years, recently announced he will retire at the end of 2012 after 40 years in the health insurance industry. “I’m proud to have helped build, and then to have had the privilege to lead, the largest and most successful nonprofit health plan in Upstate New York,” Klein said. As CEO of the health plan’s parent organization, The Lifetime Healthcare Companies, Klein oversees a $5.6 billion enterprise that provides health
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I see one,” he said. “I was impressed with the quality and craftsmanship of the filtration system and because it was in a medical facility, it was even better.” Sears’ wife, Suzanne, received dialysis treatments at FSLH for eight years. They were thankful that she was able to receive treatment close to home at the Rome Dialysis Center and showed their appreciation by supporting the expansion. Suzanne passed away in 2010 before the expansion was complete, but Howard has witnessed the difference their contribution made in the care of other dialysis patients in their community. “It’s fitting that Howard chose such an instrumental piece of the project to support,” said Eileen M. Pronobis, executive director of the FSLH Foundation. “I’ve never supported something with so much significance as the dialysis expansion,” he said. “It gave me my wife for an extra eight years.”
insurance coverage to more than 1.8 million people, sells long-term care coverage in 50 states, and provides direct patient services through its home care business Lifetime Home Care and Hospice and through Lifetime Health Medical Group. The company’s board Klein of directors will announce his successor in April. “David was instrumental in leading this corporation for more than 25 years,” said Randall Clark, chairman of the board of directors. “During that time, it went from a single health plan in Rochester with revenues of less than
$400 million to a $5.6 billion entity that is the largest nonprofit financier of health care in Upstate New York.” Klein resides in Pittsford. He has two grown sons. His wife Linde died in July 2011 after a long battle with cancer.
hanks to gifts from donors, Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare’s Rome Dialysis Center has been expanded. A ribbon cutting held recently celebrated the donors whose gifts made the expansion possible and included Howard Sears, The Rome Community Foundation, Hannaford Charitable Foundation and the Dorothy G. Griffin Charitable Foundation. The facility now has 16 patient treatment stations, double the previous number, with radiant heating and heated chairs for patient comfort as well as a state-of-the-art water filtration system. As the president of H. P. Sears Oil Company, Sears had an immediate interest in the water filtration system. Water filtration is a critical necessity in dialysis units where large amounts of water are used during treatment. “I know tugboats and terminals so I appreciate a shipshape situation when
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Presbyterian Homes & Services names CEO Michael K. Sweeney will be joining Presbyterian Homes & Services in New Hartford May 1 as its new chief executive officer. Sweeney succeeds long-term CEO Raymond L. Garrett, who is retiring. Sweeney brings nearly 35 years of health care experience to the position. He will be returning to Presbyterian Home where he began his career as assistant administrator. Since that time, he has held top management positions
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